A Maine Center for Research in STEM Education initiative to explore how engaging students in coastal research projects can help them build data literacy and career competency while also informing local policy and planning has received a $1.35 million award from the National Science Foundation. Read full UMaine News article here: NSF awards RiSE Center […]
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With the increasing availability and popularity of consumer virtual and augmented reality devices, Dimmel’s research focuses on how such technology can be used to represent geometric diagrams in three-dimensions rather than two. He recently received a nearly $672,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support this work. It’s the organization’s most prestigious award for early […]
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Education is constantly changing, even more so in the past two years. We constantly need to evaluate our work in the classroom to ensure that we are meeting the needs of every student. We want every student to have access to the strongest programs delivered by passionate and knowledgeable teachers and to prepare students to […]
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An interactive sculpture that harnesses the rays of the sun to help users explore multiplication and division will be installed in Orono’s Webster Park, the product of a unique partnership between the University of Maine and the town of Orono. It will be the first public installation of the SunRule, which was invented by UMaine assistant professor […]
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The scientific community’s push to improve undergraduate biology education over the past decade prompted the creation of numerous open educational resources. A group of researchers, including one from the University of Maine, will evaluate how well these materials have met this demand and deliver positive learning outcomes. Read full UMaine News article here: Researchers assess […]
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A study article by Master of Science in Teaching graduate research assistant Camden Bock and RiSE Center faculty Justin Dimmel was recently published in Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. Digital Representations without Physical Analogues: a Study of Body-Based Interactions with an Apparently Unbounded Spatial Diagram (link to article) Abstract: In this study, we report on […]
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The RiSE Center’s Erin Vinson, managing editor of CourseSource, will help oversee the expansion of the open-source online journal to include evidence-based physics curricula. Vinson, a STEM professional development coordinator for UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology and campus programs coordinator for the RiSE Center, will serve as the principal investigator for the project, which […]
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An original article by RiSE Center faculty member Sara Lindsay, Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, was recently published in Invertebrate Biology (American Microscopical Society). Integrating microscopy, art, and humanities to power STEAM learning in biology (link to article) Abstract: Close observation is central to both art and science as practitioners in both disciplines describe, compare, […]
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RiSE Faculty member and Graduate Coordinator Franziska Peterson’s pilot study article was recently published in Educational Research: Theory and Practice. Working with Real-World Data: A Pilot Study of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers (link to article) Abstract: The purpose of this pilot study was to engage pre-service elementary teachers in a semester-long project to deepen their quantitative […]
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RiSE Center faculty, staff, FIG-MLA faculty, and other UMaine faculty across STEM disciplines contributed to an article recently published in Frontiers in Education. This work was part of a multi-institutional grant from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program at the NSF, awarded to PI MacKenzie Stetzer (Associate Professor of Physics and RiSE Faculty member). […]
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